Lucas Abbott

Lucas Abbott(born December 8, 1993) is an American karate, and a tae-kwon-do athlete.
Titles and achievements
Abbott is currently the Estero Martial Arts World Champion. He placed 2nd in Kata in the 2010 Inoue-ha World Championships (16-17 year old division),and won 4th in Kumite at the same competition. Since then he has been traveling around the country competing in Open, TaeKwonDo, and Karate tournaments. He's been called to represent his country in Karate numerous times, though states in a recent (as of January 2011) television interview that his true ambition is in TaeKwonDo, and one day going to the Olympics to achieve his dream of representing his country against the best athletes of the sport.
Personal life
Abbott was born in Cape Coral, Florida. At the age of 15 he moved to Maryville, Tennessee. He now enjoys both states and travels a lot from state to state training TaeKwonDo and Karate. Although his Parents are still married, Abbott goes back an forth living with his Father, who remained in Florida do to his electrical business in which he owns, and his Mother, who resides primarily in Tennessee. He has two married sisters Amanda Roa, and Cortney Abbott-Cipriano who reside in Tampa, Florida, with their husbands. Abbott loves training, and even built a small Dojang in his garage, complete with a TV and Wavemasters, and makiwaras.
Start in martial arts
He was exposed to martial arts as a child when his father, being a black belt himself, taught Abbott at the age of 7. When he was 9, a friend of his recommended that he attend his TaeKwonDo school. Abbott attended the school for 6 years, including 2 years in which he taught. He achieved black belt status and trained with former members of the K-Tigers. After 6 an a half years he was kicked out of his TaeKwonDo school when his Instructor noticed one of his female instructors and Abbott had formed a romantic relationship. His master became enraged and kicked Abbott out of his style and his school leaving him without instruction. Fueled by rage, he left vowing to prove his instructor wrong by becoming the absolute best in his country. Since then he has not spoken to his ex-grandmaster, and has been shunned by the majority of his old training partners, and people he called friends and family.
Karate
With the help of his father, he enlisted from the same man who taught his father Karate,and began training 3 hours every day. He quickly became great, and was asked to represent his country only 7 months into training Karate. His training consisted of running alot, and hitting very hard objects. Abbott prides himself on creating the hardest makiwara ever, by tying a rope around a pine tree and hitting it continuously, sometime up to 1 hour with one fist until he began to bleed. Than he switched hands and began the same process. He practiced backfisting jagged rocks, and shattered his shins with shin hardening. Fueled sometimes, only by his abandonment of his grandmaster, and former friends.
The start of tournaments
Abbott began entering tournaments 4 months into starting Karate as a way to begin to see how he was stacking up against other people in his state. He first started with a qualifier in southern Florida. There, he realized his skills were nowhere near perfect. The first round in sparring, he was punched in the face, and was knocked out with a head kick. He lost the first round, and forgot his Form mid-way through, and was disqualified. Humiliated by defeat, he became enraged by his performance, and bumped his training up to 4 hours a day. His next tournament was the Estero Martial Arts World Championships. There he proceeded to win first place in Kata, however, he was shaken up in sparring, and lost 5-4. Happy with his Kata, but angry again at his sparring, Abbott put everything he had into training.
Then one day, World Championships were announced, and Abbott would be representing not only his dojo, but his country.
When Abbott arrived at the tournament he was assigned to a ring where the rest of his competition was. It was time for the tournament to begin, so Abbott dressed up and went out to perform. After beating several people, he was competing in the final. "He had been in the Final in the previous tournament, but this time he was not going to forget his Kata" he stated in an interview. Abbott performed his Kata to the best of his ability, and was ready to see his colored flags raised. But his opponent won. In shock and disbelief, he suited up and got ready for Kumite. He faced his first opponent, and started to battle. There he got 2 headkicks, and 3 punches. But everytime he scored, the referee said it was "excessive contact" and gave his opponent a point. The final score was 6-0. And Abbott was out the first round. After he was given his trophy, he passed by where he was told by a friend there, that the judges had pre-determined the winner, and the head judge was from the same organization as his opponent. He understood now why he had been given only penalties. And after being yelled at by his team for failing, threw down his medal, and left Sport Karate with that affiliation for good.
Glorious return
After being gone from Karate for several weeks, Abbott decided to invest fully in TaeKwonDo again. With much research he found a TaeKwonDo studio in Gateway, Florida. He is now flying back an forth from Tennessee, and Florida in order to train with his new team, and get closer to his one true goal. Being in the Olympics.

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